Australia’s biggest solar plant starts generating to the grid

Credit: AGL Energy/Renew Economy

Still a work in progress, the solar power plant at Nyngan in central western New South Wales, has a capacity of 25MW. When completed, capacity will be 102MW.

Which points up another advantage of a photovoltaic power plant: it can start generating power while incomplete.

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http://www.wattclarity.com.au/2015/03/first-production-from-nyngan-solar-farm-seen-over-the-weekend/ / PV photovoltaic Nyngan solar power plant western New South Wales began generating power into the National Electricity Market 25MW completed date feeding into Australia’s main grid Australian 350,000 solar PV panels installed First Solar nominated capacity to 102MW first of two plants being built by AGL Energy 53MW Broken Hill plant under construction Nyngan visible Australian Energy Market Operator’s market NEM Watch several dozen large scale solar projects in planning mode several MWs mega projects 2GW plan western Queensland renewable energy target RET Nyngan Broken Hill projects defunct solar flagships program funds now managed Australian Renewable Energy Agency other large solar plants being constructed ACT solar auction process AGL’s head of merchant energy Anthony Fowler significant milestone Australia’s largest utility-scale solar PV plant project stakeholders local electricity distributor Essential Energy Australian Energy Market OperatorAEMO First Solar AGL to NSW Government transition to renewable energy NSW Environment minister Rob Stokes estimated 13,000 jobs supported by renewable energy in NSW mostly in regional areas development of projects in regional NSW provide traditional farming communities with alternative income streams that are not rainfall dependent Jack Curtis First Solar Asia-Pacific regional manager utility-scale solar Australia’s generation mix ARENA CEO Ivor Frischknecht large-scale solar plants more competitive creating jobs boosting skills contributing to local communities development of utility-scale solar diverse energy future Paul McArdle NEM-Watch /